Have you ever wanted to love and connect with others more deeply … but felt that you could use a little help shedding the “emotional armor” and opening your heart?

With Awakening Love, Pema Chödrön invites you to start wherever you are, amid any and all of the challenges, frustrations, or fears you may be facing, and to use them as the starting place to awaken the natural and boundless capacity to give and receive love more fully.

This practice-centered program, recorded at Gampo Abbey, will teach you how to apply the insights of Buddhism’s Four Limitless Ones—lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—to even your most difficult obstacles.

Your Obstacles to the Open Heart Are Your Most Valuable Allies

Many students confess to Pema Chödrön that they cannot think of even one person to love during heart-centered meditation practice. This is what she tells them:

“What if you could open to that frustration, just for a moment, to discover not just where love is free flowing … but where it’s not? That is how we all begin to uncover the soft spot within.”

Here, Pema Chödrön brings her unique blend of kitchen-table common sense, scholarship, and empathy to help you discover the eternal resilience and joy of your own tender, undefended, and genuine heart. Whether you’re in the midst of a challenging relationship, grief, or simply in need of heart-centered rejuvenation, Awakening Love provides you with the gentle step-by-step instructions needed to awaken the natural goodness within you.

Highlights

The Four Qualities or Limitless Ones, the roots of suffering, and expanding the capacity to love

Seeing where we’re blocked and bringing lovingkindness to our biases and fears

Customer Reviews

Pema is wonderful. She isn't one of these "high above everyone else" gurus. She goes through the same issues we all go through and presents material in a sweet, loving, yet sometimes funny way.

I listened to this set while on my way to and from my best friend's house. My best friend was dying in another state. Pema's CDs helped to calm my Spirit, help me accept my feelings about the situation and lean into them. Listening to these eased my suffering from seeing my friend die. They are truly a gift.

As always: real, connected, direct and spot on teachings on seeing clearly in practice. Ani Pema is a gifted teacher who opens the door to the 4 brahma-viharas as we acknowledge and release the roots of suffering.

As always, Pema's words bring me closer to understanding what mindfulness is all about, and how constantly returning to the present moment leads to authenticity. I appreciate her ability to speak deep truths in simple ways, without sugar-coating the difficulties, but not making them seem overwhelming, either.

The content of the CDs are good, as always with Pema Chodron. However the quality of the sound is not so good. The sound seems to come out of a tin can and even though i played with the different modalities of my computer to correct it, my efforts did not work. This echo is unpleasant and disturbs my listening. So I am planning to reload Awakening Love, in the hope that the problem happened in the process and is not a problem with the product itself.

I am halfway through the 8-CD set. Already its wisdom is penetrating my mind's resistance to new ways of perceiving the challenges of living and dying. This is after listening to Pema CDs for years. You would think that I'd be enlightened by now, huh.

Wonderfully refreshing. I enjoy Pema's Heart Inspirations. This is the first time hearing her voice, soothing.
I feel very much the same way living and learning with dogs. They live in the present moment, reflecting our behavior back to us ... gratefully,
Maureen, Daily Doga Inspirations

(Posted on 3/4/2012)

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Details

CD

Contents

8 CDs (9 hours, 8 minutes)

Date Published

March 01, 2012

ISBN-10

1-60407-665-8

ISBN-13

978-1-60407-665-3

Dimensions

6 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches

Product Code

AF02382D

Audio Download

Contents

Audio download

Filetypes

M4B, MP3, PDF, ZIP

Date Published

March 01, 2012

ISBN-10

1-60407-758-1

ISBN-13

978-1-60407-758-2

Product Code

AF02382W

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